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Fooling Around with
Men in Grey Suits
 Peter
Russell Just twenty years ago, when I first came into publishing,
people would publish a book if they thought it was good. Today,
publishing's just become another big business and unless your
book is going to sell ten, twenty thousand copies minimum, they're
not even interested, however good they think the book is. With
the Web it doesn't matter. You can put up your own ideas, you
don't need a publisher to tell you whether its valid or not, or
economical and you can put it up overnight.
With my site, if I think of an idea I can write it, code it, and
have it up the next day. It's interesting that a lot of authors
these days are getting fed up with publishers. Authors feel they're
just another commercial product and there's a movement towards
self-publishing. Normally self publishing is seen as the bottom-end
of the market. If you can't get a publisher to publish you , then
you self-publish. Now its moving to the top end of the market.
Successful authors are saying "I've had enough of this game."
I can do everything a publisher can do now, thanks to modern technology.
I can do it myself and much better and I don't have to fool around
with any men in grey suits trying to look at what the return on
the investment's going to be. I'm going to be putting my next
book up on the Web as I write it, so people can give me feed-back.
Gurus
Peter Russell There's no one guru out there, who is telling
us all the answers. We're learning from each other, and the web
is making that happen much faster. Today, a lot of people are
setting themselves up as teachers or gurus who can be quite questionable.
Particularly those who get into very complex teachings. Somebody
asked me recently "What is the mark of a true guru?"
and I said "What they say should be absolutely simple but
require a hell of a lot of practise." Whereas what a lot
of people are saying is very, very complex things but saying it's
easy.
A true guru can help lead you from your state of relative ignorance
to a state of greater freedom, self knowledge, self realisation.
That is, I think, a lifelong process we are all engaged in and
what a guru does is accelerate that process. Someone who comes
down with a whole library of philosophies I would question.
I think there's always a danger of giving over our power. I think
it's a certain stage we go through in our own development. We
come across somebody who seems to be very wise...I think that
should just be a temporary stage and we should learn from that,
hopefully, and in the end realise that the best guru of all is
ourselves.
Everyone has, I think, a wonderful teacher sitting inside. It's
what in many spiritual traditions is called 'the inner voice'
sitting quietly inside ourselves but we have to quieten the voice
of the ego in order to hear that inner guidance. Then, putting
it into practise, that's where I think community comes in, so
you can have support from other people to help you on your path,
so you don't feel you're doing it alone.
The 'Rules' of Syncronicity
Peter Russell Three things seem to be important for sychronicity:
the first is what I call 'wholeness,' the more centred I am, the
more it seems to happen. If I come off a meditation retreat, sychronicities
seem to happen left, right and centre! It's as if the Universe
is geared up towards supporting me. If I'm tired, fatigued or
frustrated it doesn't happen - much. So that's the first thing
about synchronicity, it's a reflection of my own internal state.
The second principle I discovered was intention. The more I know
what I want, where I want to go in my life, sychonicities seem
to support it. This is why we find the magic, not just coincidences,
these are coincidences that are meaningful, useful for us. Then
the third principle is this thing of playfulness. A lot of the
time I live in England in a cottage in Norfolk, totally isolated
from the world apart from a telephone. My only interaction is
with rabbits and blackbirds! Synchronicity doesn't happen. It's
when I go out on the streets, party, meet people, go to conferences
or whatever, that synchronicities seem to happen.
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